All 50 Uses of
humiliate
in
Anna Karenina
- She knew that in one way or another she would tell Anna everything, and she was alternately glad at the thought of speaking freely, and angry at the necessity of speaking of her humiliation with her, his sister, and of hearing her ready-made phrases of good advice and comfort.†
Part 1
- He's good-hearted, but he's proud, and now he's so humiliated.†
Part 1humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Her relations with Stepan Arkadyevitch after their reconciliation had become humiliating.†
Part 2 *humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- That humiliation of which she was always conscious came back to her with a peculiar bitterness when her sister reminded her of it.†
Part 2
- Kitty knew that the words she had uttered in anger about her husband's infidelity and her humiliating position had cut her poor sister to the heart, but that she had forgiven her.†
Part 2humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- I consider jealousy, as you know, a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it; but there are certain rules of decorum which cannot be disregarded with impunity.†
Part 2
- She felt so sinful, so guilty, that nothing was left her but to humiliate herself and beg forgiveness; and as now there was no one in her life but him, to him she addressed her prayer for forgiveness.†
Part 2humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- Looking at him, she had a physical sense of her humiliation, and she could say nothing more.†
Part 2
- However often he told himself that he was in no wise to blame in it, that recollection, like other humiliating reminiscences of a similar kind, made him twinge and blush.†
Part 2humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- There had been in his past, as in every man's, actions, recognized by him as bad, for which his conscience ought to have tormented him; but the memory of these evil actions was far from causing him so much suffering as those trivial but humiliating reminiscences.†
Part 2
- The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received.†
Part 2
- And I tell you—I did make an offer and was rejected, and Katerina Alexandrovna is nothing now to me but a painful and humiliating reminiscence.†
Part 2humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- Tell me, isn't it humiliating to think that a man has disdained your love, that he hasn't cared for it?†
Part 2
- "But the humiliation," said Kitty, "the humiliation one can never forget, can never forget," she said, remembering her look at the last ball during the pause in the music.†
Part 2
- "But the humiliation," said Kitty, "the humiliation one can never forget, can never forget," she said, remembering her look at the last ball during the pause in the music.†
Part 2
- Where is the humiliation?†
Part 2
- The shame, the humiliation!†
Part 2
- Darya Alexandrovna regarded staying in the country for the summer as essential for the children, especially for the little girl, who had not succeeded in regaining her strength after the scarlatina, and also as a means of escaping the petty humiliations, the little bills owing to the wood-merchant, the fishmonger, the shoemaker, which made her miserable.†
Part 3
- They don't know how at every step he's humiliated me, and been just as pleased with himself.†
Part 3humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- In early youth in the Corps of Pages, he had experienced the humiliation of a refusal, when he had tried, being in difficulties, to borrow money, and since then he had never once put himself in the same position again.†
Part 3
- He would have had his hand chopped off before he would have allowed himself by a word, by a hint, to humiliate her, or even to fall short of the fullest respect a woman could look for.†
Part 3humiliate = extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride)
- If that's mine, I feel so exalted, so strong, that nothing can be humiliating to me.†
Part 3humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- How could a woman of any intelligence, of any delicacy, put her sister in such a humiliating position!†
Part 3
- She is oppressed, humiliated by the consciousness of her disabilities.†
Part 4humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- "And I'm oppressed and humiliated that they won't engage me at the Foundling," the old prince said again, to the huge delight of Turovtsin, who in his mirth dropped his asparagus with the thick end in the sauce.†
Part 4
- One must get out of the humiliating position in which one is placed; one can't live a trois.†
Part 4humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- That was what I did indeed when she herself made known to me my humiliation; I left everything as of old.†
Part 4
- "No," said Kitty, blushing, but looking at him all the more boldly with her truthful eyes; "a girl may be so circumstanced that she cannot live in the family without humiliation, while she herself..."†
Part 4
- And he saw all that Pestsov had been maintaining at dinner of the liberty of woman, simply from getting a glimpse of the terror of an old maid's existence and its humiliation in Kitty's heart; and loving her, he felt that terror and humiliation, and at once gave up his arguments.†
Part 4
- And he saw all that Pestsov had been maintaining at dinner of the liberty of woman, simply from getting a glimpse of the terror of an old maid's existence and its humiliation in Kitty's heart; and loving her, he felt that terror and humiliation, and at once gave up his arguments.†
Part 4
- He felt disgraced, humiliated, guilty, and deprived of all possibility of washing away his humiliation.†
Part 4humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- He felt disgraced, humiliated, guilty, and deprived of all possibility of washing away his humiliation.†
Part 4
- But this sense of his own humiliation before the man he had unjustly despised made up only a small part of his misery.†
Part 4
- And now when he had learned to know her, to love her as she should be loved, he had been humiliated before her, and had lost her forever, leaving with her nothing of himself but a shameful memory.†
Part 4humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Most terrible of all had been his ludicrous, shameful position when Alexey Alexandrovitch had pulled his hands away from his humiliated face.†
Part 4
- Again in extraordinarily rapid succession his best moments rose before his mind, and then his recent humiliation.†
Part 4
- "This is how people go mad," he repeated, "and how they shoot themselves...to escape humiliation," he added slowly.†
Part 4
- There was the same conception of the senselessness of everything to come in life, the same consciousness of humiliation.†
Part 4
- By his action he had, as it were, washed away the shame and humiliation he had felt before.†
Part 4
- He recognized all his magnanimity, but he did not now feel himself humiliated by it.†
Part 4humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Altogether their honeymoon—that is to say, the month after their wedding—from which from tradition Levin expected so much, was not merely not a time of sweetness, but remained in the memories of both as the bitterest and most humiliating period in their lives.†
Part 5humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- But I cannot help feeling humiliated before other people for the position I am placed in.†
Part 5humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- If I could take from off you all these petty, humiliating cares...I understand that a woman's word, a woman's superintendence is needed.†
Part 5humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- But for Alexey Alexandrovitch it was a necessity to think in that way; it was such a necessity for him in his humiliation to have some elevated standpoint, however imaginary, from which, looked down upon by all, he could look down on others, that he clung, as to his one salvation, to his delusion of salvation.†
Part 5
- Vronsky knew that further efforts were useless, and that he had to spend these few days in Petersburg as though in a strange town, avoiding every sort of relation with his own old circle in order not to be exposed to the annoyances and humiliations which were so intolerable to him.†
Part 5
- She was worrying over something, and keeping something back from him, and did not seem to notice the humiliations which poisoned his existence, and for her, with her delicate intuition, must have been still more unbearable.†
Part 5
- She had never felt so humiliated as at the moment when, sending for the commissionaire, she heard from him the exact account of how he had waited, and how afterwards he had been told there was no answer.†
Part 5humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
- Anna felt humiliated, insulted, but she saw that from her point of view Countess Lidia Ivanovna was right.†
Part 5
- Vronsky could not understand exactly what had passed between the Kartasovs and Anna, but he saw that something humiliating for Anna had happened.†
Part 5humiliating = extremely embarrassing (decreasing dignity)
- He was humiliated himself at what he was saying, and that exasperated him all the more.†
Part 6humiliated = extremely embarrassed (decreased dignity)
Definition:
extremely embarrass (decrease dignity, self-respect, or pride -- especially in front of others)